93blackrx

does anyone have any experience with these springs? What performance differences did you guys find? Does anyone happen to have any pictures of their cars with them?

Thanks, Matt

SleepR1

Do a search. I wrote a comparo between the RB and the H&R springs...

93blackrx

dude I couldn't find your thread.. I looked for ever, at least it seemed like it. could you just sum up what you found in the comparo? Which is better?

crazysuprakid

a lot of the old stuff disappeared about a month ago.

SleepR1

Set your search for older than 30 days, go back to the "beginning" if you have to...

rynberg

since I wanted to re-read Manny's comments anyway, here's the results of the search. Lots of good info here....

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/search...der=descending

SleepR1

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...g+beat+springs

For other FD owners' benefit, I bumped the thread, and stickied it...

Enjoy!

KZ1

I hate prgressive srpings becasue they make me feel liek I am driving a caddy, so I went with the RB, they drop more in the back too.

Chronos

I'm using the rb springs and koni yellows and guess what??? The car probably doesn't even pull more than .33 G's before scraping on the damn wheel housing...the entire time I've owned my FD (the entire 2k miles it was running) I was never able to do ANY cornering, I don't know what's the deal but the car sits 4" off the ground in the front and top of the left wheel well is scraped all to ****...I weigh about 220lbs, so maybe that's why???

Radical Rotary Avantgard

Chronos, either your bathroom scale is lying to you, by under estimating your weight or your RB springs are made of cheap & thin coat hanger wire.
My scale has me at 225 lbs. (I look like more than that) , I have the RB springs with the Bilstein struts (stock R1), 17 wheels and it does not rub anywhere at ALL and I can pull more G's than an Iraki MIG.
So you must have either worn out struts, defective springs or you weight more than a Sumo wrestler.
No offense intended, J/K.

SleepR1

Saw a car today at the track with new RB springs. RB must have changed something. The guy's car sits low up front. Stock R1 shocks were made by Showa of Japan. The Bilsteins came on the Type RS ('99) FD Rx7s.

93blackrx

so whets the general consensus on the racing beat springs? Or will this turn out like the front mount vs. stock mount debate?

Matt

Chronos

you know...come to think of it when I brought in my car to our local rotary shop he noted that my front left koni yellow shock was leaking. I thought it was just because I hit a huge bump in the freeway at 110mph, but come to think of it, the shock might have been bad the entire time and that was just the death blow!

Chronos

btw, SleepR1, how have you coolant temps been around the track with all that hot air blowing on your radiator???

SleepR1

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...64#post1610264